Over the weekend, there was a stomach virus in my house. In the middle of that, on Sunday, I'm like "crap I gotta water my plants!" Open the tent, look through my loupe, and see a few amber trichomes. Now I'm locked into a 5 hour harvest/trim with sick kids, a napping wife, and un-flushed plants, DOH! Not my usual happy time of putting on music and trimming away with no one home. But whatever, I got me some nugz! XD
Will come back and post the harvest after drying/curing. I don't think I got as much as I wanted this time due to several factors, not the least of which was not being able to defoliate enough. They grew so thick and bush from the hydro!! Plus I need some more powerful light, but in order to install one I need a tent that's taller than 5-feet or I'll end up burning my plants. So I'll just have to go with what I've got until next year sometime.
Got TONS of trim, there's a few more popcorn buds in there to pick out once it all dries (going to smoke them first while the main stuff cures for at least a week). Last time (my first time) I threw it all out because I was unprepared -- too focused on the growing to figure out how to deal with trim. This time I'm going to run it through a kief screen and make some hash! I'm trying to find a bottle of Everclear to make golden dragon tincture for edibles, but it's banned here in all provinces except Alberta. Which means I either have to drive 7 hours over to Alberta, or go down to the US and stay over for 2 days which will allow me to bring back up to 1.1 liters of liquor. Or find someone in Alberta willing to ship me a bottle. I love Canada, but they like to slap everything with a ban-hammer whenever some idiot hurts himself doing something stupid. ("Hey guys, watch me chug this bottle of Everclear!".... thanks for ruining it for the rest of us, dumbass)
Side note, I bought a Happy Hydro Kief Collector. It's like 3x bigger than I thought it would be! Really made trimming a lot easier having a surface to set it on, and there's a little bit of dust in the bottom after the harvest. I just left it in there, will probably scrape it up today if I'm not having to take care of sick family members.
Expecting around the same dry weight as last time, about 2.5oz total, though it looks like there might be slightly more than last time so I'll say 3oz. I also trimmed most of plant B really well, much better than my first time around.
I was trying to do a really nice trim job but after a few hours I was like screw this, I gotta get it done, and reverted back to the trim job I did last time. With a wife and kids I think I'll have to just do quick trims like that to get it over with for now. Though my wife was watching me for a bit and said it looks like fun -- told me to get another pair of Fiskars for the next harvest and she'd help! :D
Side note, my lungs are screwed from "cold, cold, flu, chest infection, cold" so far this season. I can't inhale smoke any more or it just about kills me and then I cough up a bunch of fun stuff. I can, however, dry-herb vape and I'm just fine. So no more smokin' for this guy, at least for quite a while. Also I've learned not to mention the word "vape" around the general public. The government has everyone so scared of vaping -- when it's the LIQUID pre-filled vape cartridges that are killing people due to super-high temps converting the chemicals inside into even nastier shit that kills people. Dry herb vape is perfectly safe! I hate having to constantly explain that. Wish news outlets would broadcast the truth about dry herb vaping.